Fry Family History

 (last update 24 Oct 2004)

Ninth Generation

( KIMBRELL CLAUDE⁸, MARK⁷, WILLIAM⁶, SION⁵, ROBERT⁴, SION W.³, ROBERT², ROBERT¹)

Children of Kimbrell Claude Hill and Amanda Jones

1. Martha Jane Hill [737] was born 8 January 1841 in Yale, Johnson County, Arkansas, and died 29 March 1926. She married Thomas Jefferson Dickerson on 3 January 1859, son of Nathaniel Dickerson and Sarah Byrd, in Yale, Johnson County, Arkansas. He was born 12 July 1838 in Tennessee, and died 15 December 1922. Thomas served the CSA during the Civil War. He was a farmer on Mulberry Township, Johnson County. In 1870 orphans Sarah Chambers and her sister Rachel lived with them in Mulberry Township. They are both buried in Yale Cemetery, Johnson County, Arkansas.

Children of Martha Hill and Thomas Dickerson are:

1. Amanda Jane 'Mandy' Dickerson born about 1867 in Arkansas.
2. Kimbrell N. Dickerson, born 30 Aug 1869, Arkansas, died 27 Sep 1874; buried, Yale Cemetery, Johnson County, Arkansas.
3. William F. Dickerson, born January 1874 in Arkansas.
4. John F. Dickerson, born 14 March 1876 in Arkansas; died 22 April 1962.
5. Thomas J. Dickerson, born 02 October 1882 in Arkansas; died 24 January 1972 in at home, Davenport, Lincoln County, Oklahoma.

2. Sarah Ann Hill [716] was born 1843 in Johnson County, Arkansas, and died after 1870. She married Clement Cood. He was born about 1835 in Tennessee.

Children of Sarah Hill and Clement Cood are:

1. Eliza J. Cood, born about 1860 in Arkansas.
2. Amanda C. Cood, born about 1866 in Arkansas.
3. Sarah C. Cood, born about 1870. She was living with her grandfather, Kimbrell Hill, in 1880.

Bibliography

• 1850 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County
• 1870 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County
• 1880 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County

5. John N. Hill [719] was born about 1847 in Arkansas. He married Mary E. Bench, daughter of Joseph Bench and Rebecca Prim. She was born about 1853 in Horeshead, Johnson County, Arkansas. John served the CSA enlisting in Company D of the Fourth Arkansas Calvary.

Child of John Hill and Mary Bench is:

1. Anna Hill, born about 1875 in Arkansas.

6. Zerelda Angeline Hill [720] was born 29 November 1849 in Arkansas, and died 29 December 1914 in Hartman, Johnson County, Arkansas. She married Dr. Parrington Packwood Taylor in Hartman, Johnson County, Arkansas. He was born 27 November 1844 in Missouri, and died 22 August 1898 in Hartman, Johnson County, Arkansas.

Children of Zerelda Hill and Parrington Taylor are:

1. Mandy Taylor, born 1867.
2. Eliza Taylor, born 03 February 1869; died 12 August 1957 in Hartman, Johnson County, Arkansas.
3. James Albert Taylor, born September 1873.
4. Elesha Taylor, born 1875; died 10 October 1921 in Hartman, Johnson County, Arkansas.
5. Ella Taylor, born June 1884; died 1904 in Hartman, Johnson County, Arkansas.

7. Eliza Hill [6721] was born 8 April 1852 in Hartman, Johnson County, Arkansas and died 25 August 1890. She married 25 November 1869 to John Monroe Bench, son of Joseph Daniel Bench and Martha Adaline Prim. He was born 1846 and died after 1893. Eliza is buried on Kendall Cemetery, Johnson County, Arkansas.

Bibliography

• 1870 Federal Census, Johnson County, Arkansas, page 19b

9. Albert Hill [6207] was born April 1854 in Arkansas, and died March 1933 in Keo, Lonoke County, Arkansas. He married Sarah F. Chambers. She was born June 1852 in Kentucky. In 1870 Sarah and here sister Rachael lived in the household of Thomas Jefferson Dickerson and Martha Jane Hill. Sarah is buried in Tahlequah, Cherokee County, Oklahoma

Children of Albert Hill and Sarah Chambers are:

1. Emma Hill married Russell Pigman.
2. Marcus H. Hill, born January 1876 in Arkansas.
3. William Carroll Hill, born March 1880 in Arkansas; died about 1953 in Clarksville, Johnson County, Arkansas.
4. Martha J. Hill, born January 1884.
5. Leonia Hill, born April 1888. He married Emma Pigman.
6. Rachael E. Hill, born May 1890.
7. Arry G. Hill, born March 1895.
8. Coy E. Hill, born July 1897.

11. Mary Emeline Hill [6208] was born about 1860 in Johnson County, Arkansas. She married William Anderson Byrd about 1876. He was born about 1853 in Arkansas. William was a laborer. They lived on their on their son's (Aurthur) farm in Logan County in 1930.

Clarksville Democrat, Clarksville, Johnson County, Arkansas, Thursday, 22 Mar 1917
Hill Township
Miss Roxie Byrd was up visiting her sister, Mrs. Edna Hughes Sunday and Monday.

Clarksville Democrat, Clarksville, Johnson County, Arkansas, Thursday, 15 Nov 1917
Hill Township
Misses Roxy and Allie Byrd returned from the cotton fields $40 to the good.

Child of Mary Hill and William Byrd is:

1. + Aurther D. Byrd, born about 1886, Arkansas; married Ollie [last name unknown].
2. Edna Byrd.
3. Allie Byrd (f).
4. + Roxie E. Byrd, born 11 September 1897; died 18 March 1991 in Johnson County Regional Hospital, Johnson County, Arkansas. Married John Jackson Cooper, born 17 February 1896, Arkansas, died 20 November 1979. Both buried in Batson Cemetery, Johnson County, Arkansas.

Bibliography

• 1870 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County
• 1910 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Dickerson Township, page 2b, William A. Byrd.
• 1930 Federal Census, AR, Logan County, Boone Township, William A. Byrd.

12. Ambrose Warren Hill [6209] was born 14 August 1862 in Mulberry Township, Johnson County, Arkansas, and died 3 December 1947 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. He married Louvinia Caroline 'Callie' Stewart on 30 November 1882 in Ozark, Franklin County, Arkansas, daughter of William Stewart and Louisa Swift. She was born 18 May 1860 in Mulberry, Johnson County, Arkansas, and died 13 March 1961 in Davenport, Lincoln County, Oklahoma. Both Ambrose and Callie are buried in Davenport.

Ambrose was a lover of jokes and wanted everyone to feel welcome at his home; friends and strangers. He was a good jig dancer, played the violin and was very much in demand to play for the country dances. Later was the leader in song at most church and social gatherings in the community. After their marriage they brought Callie's sibling's share of her mothers farm on Little Mulberry Creek. In 1890 they sold this farm to Campbell Pigman and moved to Texas to join Callie's brother Joseph. About 2 years later they moved back to Yale and settled on his father's farm. In 1906 he decided to build a store in Yale. The people would bring their eggs, fryers, hides of all kind, ginseng, yellow roots, etc. and trade for articles they needed. Later he built blacksmith shop and Grist Mill. About 1914 Ambrose's oldest son Everett sold his interest in his father-in-law's business, the Enterprise Trading Company,  moved back to Yale and brought interest in his father's business. Everett took over bookkeeping and clerical duties. 1918 they sold the farm and the business and moved to Quinton, Oklahoma.

Everett in the last few year's had lost his health and died in 1919 died. Soon after his wife Bessie died. Ambrose took in  Everett's children to provide for and send to school. About 1921 Bessie's brother Mack Graves took two boys. Ray & Roy and cared for them till they became men. Gussie (Hill) Cotton, took the youngest girl, Euna Mae, and cared for her till she married. Rena the oldest stayed with grandmother. Ambrose and his son Clem J. owned and operated a Hardware and Furniture business He was a active member in the Methodist Church and a member of the IOOF Lodge.

The Herald-Democrat, Clarksville Arkansas, Thursday, 1 Jul 1920
Oark
A. W. Hill of Yale was at the Hill [Hall] Sunday.

Children of Ambrose Hill and Louvinia Stewart are:

1. William Everett Hill, born 21 September 1883 in Yale, Johnson County, Arkansas; died 10 January 1920 in Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas. He married Bessie Myrtle Graves; born 14 June 1890; died 08 March 1922. Both are buried in Enterprise Cemetery, Haskell County, Oklahoma.
2. Minnie Augustan Hill, born 19 December 1884 in Yale, Johnson County, Arkansas; died 12 July 1945 in Corpus Christi, Texas.
3. Kimbrell Claude Hill, born 18 January 1886 in Yale, Johnson County, Arkansas; died 31 January 1892 in Spanish Fort, Montage County, Texas. Kimbrell is buried in Starkey Cemetery, Montague County, Texas.
4. Obed Newton Hill, born 03 July 1888 in Yale, Johnson County, Arkansas; was killed in a bank robbery on 11 January 1918 in Camp Funston, Kansas. Obed had a pleasant generous way about him that made him appreciated by most everyone. He lived to the age of 39. He never seemed to get serious about any girl friends. He was the only child in his family who had red hair like his mother. He completed school at Hill Chapel (Yale) and High School in Ozark and at Northeastern State College Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He taught his first school at Hill Chapel in 1914. He purchased his brother's (Everette) interest in the Enterprise Trading Company of  Oklahoma. Mack Graves (who was a brother to Bessie and wife to Everettt was a partner in the business for few years before later they closed the business. He was employed at the Quinton Bank in Quinton, Oklahoma in November 1917. He transferred to the Camp Funston Kansas Bank. After closing hours this bank would permit the army commissioned officers do their personal banking. Captain Lewis J. Whisler planned a robbery knowing that there would be 5 men in the bank to eliminate. The bank President, Kearney Wornall, was forced to tie and gag the other four men, which included John Jewell, Editor of Camp Funston News Paper. Wornall was the first victim, and about eleven o'clock at night he was found on the outside of the bank crawling around. The camp commander said the investigation showed the four men were tied hand and feet and gagged with their handkerchiefs and they found an Army hatchet which without question was the murder weapon; and checking with the Camp Quartermaster Department showed that Capt. Whisler had signed for the hatchet. After an interview with the following day Capt Whisler killed himself  after leaving a suicide note. A search of his quarters turned up $62,800 dollars of the bank money. The Bank employees were Kearney Wornall of Kansas City Bank President, who was badly wounded, but did recover, Obed N. Hill, Carl Ohleson, and C. Fuller Winters. [Reference: feature story in the Kansas City Star on 13 Sep 1964 as  told by Kerney Wornall of Kansas City Kansas. Obed is buried in Yale Cemetery, Johnson County, Arkansas.
5. Fred Warren Hill, born 01 February 1890 in Yale, Johnson County, Arkansas; died 22 February 1976 in Davenport, Oklahoma.
6. Edgar Ashley Hill, born 10 January 1893 in Yale, Johnson County, Arkansas; died October 1980 in Oklahoma.
7. Clem Jefferson Hill, born 15 December 1894 in Yale, Johnson County, Arkansas; died in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. In 1914 Clem was inducted into the Army during World War I in Johnson County, Arkansas.
8. [first name unknown] Hill, born 18 August 1901 in Yale, Johnson County, Arkansas; died 18 August 1901 in Yale, Johnson County, Arkansas.
9. Eula Jane Hill, born 17 February 1903 in Yale, Johnson County, Arkansas.

Bibliography

• 1860 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County
• 1870 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County
• 1900 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, page 3b
• 1910 Federal Census, AR, Johnson County, Dickerson Township, dwelling 14
• Family Bible: William M. Stewart